Hey guys, welcome to a column here on YDKS Movies entitled Speech of the Week! For now on, every week I will post a new scene from a movie that features a speech of some sort being given. After all, there are a lot of famous scenes in film where characters give an influential speech of some sort. Then again, there are also a lot of scenes where characters give a speech and it just comes off cheesy and lame. In this section, you will see both kinds. That's right, people, I'm giving you the good and bad of film speeches all wrapped up in one great big package. I hope you all enjoy.
It's been a while since I've done a Speech of the Week. This week's speech comes from a movie I literally just finished watching: David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch. Based on loosely on William S. Burroughs' controversial and seminal novel of the same name as well as some of Burroughs' life, the film follows Jim Lee (played by Peter Weller of Robocop fame) as he attempts to write a novel while tripping out on drugs and hallucinating. Lee imagines his typewriter turning into a talking, giant bug and believes he is a secret agent trying to crack into a secret, evil organization called Interzone Incorporated. The film is incredibly hard to follow and is just damn weird.
One of the standout moments from the movie is when Lee gives a speech during a car ride about a man who had a talking asshole. Yes, that's right-- a talking asshole. Now, this may seem silly but trust me; this is an incredibly creepy speech. In fact, it's kind of scary. It's one of the few things from Burroughs' original novel that made it to the screen and it shows.
Watch it below and try not to be a little creeped out.
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